I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies Iuse at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

Now for the GIVEAWAY info! Simon Says Stamp is generously offering a $25 gift card at each stop on this hop! (thanks Heidi!). To be entered in to win one from here all you need to do is leave a comment on this post! I'll use Random.org to choose a winner Sunday night (Dec 11, 2016), and all the winners will be announced on the Simon Says Stamp blog Monday evening!

December 08, 2016

Since getting sick and just life in general has really got in the way of my Christmas card series this year - I may or may not be posting several videos back-to-back LOL! Or I may just cut my losses this year and save the insane amount of stamps and dies I'd accumulated for this year and use them next year - I haven't decided yet.

Anywho - I'd made these recently and wanted to share:

Anyone who knows me knows I love pink for holiday/Christmas cards - and while I'm normally more of a gold fan (though if you told my teenage self that I'd prefer gold to silver I'd have been horrified) I am LOVING the combo of pink with grey/silver/liquid platinum.

I kept these cards super simple one-layer cards with just stamping the tree and layering images from MFT's Oh Christmas Trees stamp set. I then embossed the sentiments from the MFT Hand-Lettered Christmas set with silver embossing powder on 2 of them and Liquid Platinum EP on the other 2. I like both!

The insides involved more stamping with the same inks and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

I'm SO behind it's ridiculous. This week's Color Throwdown Challenge is up and it's a fabulous combo - check out the CTD blog post here to see what the rest of the team created with these colours!

Here's what I made:

I pulled out Simon Says Stamp's Color Me Trees stamp set and heat embossed one of the images onto a piece of Bristol Smooth card stock. I then used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and my water brush to color it in.

I die cut the sentiment 3 times and stacked it before adhering it to my card, and used the SSS Circle Doodle background stamp on the aqua card stock since it goes perfectly with this tree image!

I finished off the inside of the card with this great sentiment set from the SSS Happy Christmas stamp set and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

December 05, 2016

Well happy Monday :P! I'm still getting over a horrible cold, as are the 2 little ones (still hoping the older 2 don't get sick but we'll see what happens) - and so now I am SO much more behind on Christmas card videos than I thought possible!

However the fact that I'm even doing a Christmas Card series this year is an improvement as I didn't even attempt one last year! Always look to the bright side ;).

Anywho - here's the latest:

These cards were so quick and easy to whip up - mostly b/c I did something VERY similar with the same Big Numbers stamp set for my Halloween series. You can check out that post HERE if you missed it!

As I said I used Simon Says Stamp's Big Numbers stamp set for the "25" that was heat embossed onto some Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Paper. I then used several Distress inks to create a splatter/watercolor background to make the numbers pop. SO fun as it always looks different every time it's done.

The insides were kept simple with a sentiment also from a SSS stamp set - I love the layout and size of this particular sentiment - so perfect for the inside of a card!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 28, 2016

Hello everyone! After a completely crazy day, and some internet/website issues (holy Cyber Monday - EVERY site I was on today was slowed down at times) I finally have this video and post to share with y'all.

Before I get to that - speaking of Cyber Monday - I just wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to each and every one of you that places orders over the weekend (and at any time) via my links. I have this in my "disclaimers" that I make a small commission (at no extra cost to you guys) on my affiliate links when people use them to order - and over time they add up and it's how I do what I do. I can't say it enough how much it means to me when y'all go out of your way to use my links and those that e-mail me to tell me they spread the word and tell their friends to "come here first!" LOL! It means the world - so thank you <3 <3 <3.

OK on to the cards - so many requests for me to use these stamps/dies - and I was more than happy to oblige ;)

I used MFT's Simply Snowflakes stamp set along with the coordinating die set, the Snowfall of Blessings stamp set and the Stylish Snowflakes Die-namics. I couldn't make up my mind when I started thinking colours and what to make etc etc so in the end I went with the colours that were in the kit from a few months ago and made 8 cards.

I then used the Stylish Snowflakes Die-namics on MFT's Cornflower, Silver and Sour Apple Glitter card stock and layered those over the embossed and die cut snowflakes. In real life this glitter card stock has the prettiest shimmer - it looks so dull in pictures but it's anything but!

All the sentiments are from the Snowfall of Blessings stamp set - heat embossed as well and popped onto the cards with foam tape.

On the card fronts and on the insides I stamped snowflakes and whatnot with Versamark ink to add some more interest and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 24, 2016

My camera was having a fit trying to focus on them with the light reflecting off the sentiments (I show in the video how they end up looking almost foiled - LOVE!) - but this was the best I could do!

I used sentiments from the Tim Holtz Doodle Greetings sets - there's a 1 and 2 and of course I got both sets - they're too gorgeous to pass up. I love how big they are! I wanted to use them as the background on these cards, and as I was making them I was thinking how gorgeous they'd look on a blue card base......or a pale blue.......so many ideas so little time!

I used Distress Grit Paste for the first time on here too - PERFECT for "snow". If you've ever worked with texture paste before you'll notice a huge difference with this grit paste - you can really feel the "grit" when you're working with it.

Like I mention in the video - I've fallen in love with the combination of Delicate Celestial Copper ink and Ranger Bronze Perfect Pearls - it is beyond gorgeous!!! The shine on these sentiments is so pretty :).

See what I mean about having difficulty getting decent pictures? Worth it though! ;)

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 22, 2016

Well after about half a dozen attempts at uploading (the interwebs have NOT been cooperating with me the last couple of days) I FINALLY have this video uploaded to share with y'all.

I had a hard time getting a good picture of these cards - the silver glitter card stock was reflecting into the camera LOL!

I used the Simon Says Stamp Corbel Ornament Collage die, and did exactly what I told y'all I wanted to do with it when I showed it in a haul video - and that is back it with glitter card stock ;).

I finished off the insides of these cards with a die cut Merry Christmas sentiment and that was it! I think these would be fabulous paired with SSS's Schoolhouse Red envelopes - of course I think of that after I finished uploading the video and editing all the pictures..... :P ;)

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 19, 2016

Hello everyone! I am SO excited to be participating in this special blog hop for Simon Says Stamp's Holiday Release Week! They've released a bunch of new fabulous products this week and to celebrate and provide inspiration a bunch of fabulous designers are taking part in this hop! I'll have links to everyone below!

If you didn't get here from Heather's blog - make sure to check it out along with everyone else participating:

I know right? AMAZING group of talent - I'm so stoked to be a part of it! :) :) :)

I couldn't not use the new Limited Edition Card Kit (I did an unboxing video of it here if you missed it) - which is selling out quickly! Once it's sold out it's gone, however a lot of the elements in this kit are available individually - so I linked to everything I could in the supplies below.

Also make sure to stay tuned to the end of this post for the GIVEAWAY info!

I used the new Swell Christmas stamp set along with several elements from the Holiday Kit to make my card - and ended up creating a way to incorporate a gift card:

I am loving these new mini envelopes the Simon's released lately, and thought it would be fun to use one on my card front and still make it "usable" so that a gift card could be tucked inside.

I used Prismacolor Pencils to color in the Santa image, which I'd stamped onto Neenah Desert Storm card stock with SSS Intense black ink. I fussy cut out the image then edged it with a black marker before adhering it to my card with a bit of foam tape. I applied the tape only to the right side of the image so that the flap of the envelope can be tucked under it to hold it in place.

I finished off the inside of the card with a stamped sentiment from the same set and stamped the snowflakes from the set with SSS Clear Ink and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

Now for the giveaway info! Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $50 Gift Voucher on EVERY blog on this hop!!! To be entered in to mine just leave a comment on this post before 11:59pm Sunday November 20 and I'll use random.org to choose a winner! Thank you SO much Simon Says Stamp for your generosity! :)

ETA: Congrats to LaDonna Shelly!! SSS will be e-mailing you ASAP!! Thank you to EVERYONE who visited and left sweet comments - I appreciate all the support more than you know! :) <3

November 16, 2016

Hello everyone! I can't believe it's Wednesday already - the kids had a long weekend from school and it threw off my days (literally - I forgot so many things already this week b/c I thought Monday was Sunday and so-on...). So that coupled with just life itself I still find myself completely behind with everything - including this week's Color Throwdown challenge:

I have to admit I was a little stumped for a bit with this color combo (and I didn't do last week's challenge either :( - I've mentioned I've been struggling with time and creative energy and all that - it's been a bit rough). I started coming up with a card idea that in the end took a completely different direction and I ended up creating a holiday card:

This is a 4 Bar Size Card.

I like when that happens. This is one of the reasons why I LOVE the Color Throwdown challenge so much - it gets me thinking outside the box a little and so often the color combos aren't ones I'd ever think of myself - yet LOVE the end result of!!

I used WPlus9's Be Merry Florals set and stamped the images with MFT dye inks onto watercolour paper (which as I say in the video is totally not necessary - just regular white or cream card stock would work fine). My original intent was to spray it with water (like I've done HERE) but I changed my mind and just did more stamping and some splattering of course!

I used WPlus9's 4 Bar Stitched Rectangles Dies (that I LOVE - I like making this size of card sometimes and having these dies just makes me happy LOL) for the main panel, and MFT's Chevron Grid background for the card base.

I of course pulled out my Prima Metallics watercolour for the splatter (pretty much everything is getting that treatment - I'm actually kind of surprised I haven't done it to the walls here.....but then again it's a rental so I'm sure the landlord wouldn't be too happy with me....), and added some splatter to the card base itself. More is more!

I used WPlus9 Be Merry Sentiments for the inside and outside - loving this combination of fonts - this is such a great little set! I embossed the larger words with WOW's Rich Gold Pale embossing powder, and stamped the script ones with SSS Intense Black ink and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favorite Things etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 12, 2016

A couple of weeks ago I was a Guest Designer for WPlus9 - how cool is that?! I made these 2 cards with a video for them and have them here to share with y'all again today:

These are 4 Bar Sized Cards.

I used the WPlus9 Holiday Houses set to create these fun winter scenes, and several Distress Inks along with some Copic Opaque White splatter to create the snowy background.

I added Frosted Lace Stickles to give a bit of extra texture and dimension without any real sparkle - the glitter in the Frosted Lace Stickles isn't iridescent like some of the others - it's a white glitter so it totally looks like snow to me!

I finished the insides with some of the remaining stamped and watercolour images, and added a sentiment using the Be Merry Sentiments set.

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

November 09, 2016

Well folks - it's finally here! After a hiatus (as in I didn't do one last year - rather just several random holiday/Christmas cards) my Christmas Card Series is back!

I won't make any promises as to how many videos I will be doing (my hope is 25 - just because that's a great number for Christmas obviously) - and as usual I have no set schedule for them. Maybe someday I can be all organized and actually schedule things out - but the way my life is as a single mom of 4 and everything on my plate I consider it a win if I can drink a full cup of coffee before it gets forgotten in the morning LOL!

Anywho - lets get to it shall we?

These are 4Bar Sized Cards.

I decided to start off with something simple - that looks more detailed - and easy to mass produce.

I used Simon Says Stamp's Merry Christmas stamp on watercolour paper, heat embossed it with detail white embossing powder, then watercolored over it with my Gansai Tambi watercolours.

I kept the insides simple using a sentiment from the SSS Inside Holiday Greetings stamp set along with a stamped flourish from the set and that was it!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube. If the product images have sets of letters below the image it means there's more than one place it can be purchased. SSS = Simon Says Stamp, AZ = Amazon, MFT = My Favourite Things, SnS = Scrap N Stamp (Canada) etc. Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home with my kids! I appreciate your support more than words can say!

Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been sent by a store/manufacturer (with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love). Everything else I purchase myself!

December 24, 2015

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I made yet another Christmas card last night, using more patterned papers from the same pack I used on my previous card. I love how the two cards turned out totally different:

Of course the second I die cut this snowflake from gold glitter paper I wanted to die cut a million more and stick them to everything LOL!

I adhered the snowflake with a red line sticky dot (from Jody's Sticky Stuff store - the link is with the supplies) and then covered that with a black enamel dot since there's a hole in the middle of the snowflake.

I finished off the inside of the card with more patterned paper and a stamped sentiment from the Joyous Christmas Sentiments stamp set and that was it!

December 23, 2015

I'm still making Christmas cards! No video for today's one - I've been doing a million things at once and my little Gman is teething (he's got a top one trying to come through and it's being a total bear - the poor kid has been in agony for a couple of days now :( - it will be SO nice for him when it finally comes through - I'm hoping it does tonight!), so any card making is rather sporadic - which is how it is around here regardless LOL!

This was another one I had on my mental "to-do" list, though it was a little more vague in my head and took on a life of it's own once I started creating it:

I used several different Die-namics set from MFT, along with the Trim the Tree stamp set and Die-namics set.

I die cut the letters from gold glittery card stock (insert heart eyes emoji here LOL), then to complete the sentiment I used just the "wishing you" stamp from one of the sentiments in the Trim the Tree set and embossed it with Detail White embossing powder onto Bubblegum card stock.

I finished off the inside with another sentiment from the same set and then added few stars from the set with Bubblegum ink and that was it!

December 22, 2015

I hope you all are enjoying the season so far - as for me and my 4 munchkins we're enjoying the beginning of Christmas holidays with no school and not a whole lot of anything planned. It's been nice just to take it a little easier and spend time baking Christmas goodies (speaking of which it looks like a bomb of icing went off in my kitchen - I'll be cleaning that up after typing up this post LOL), playing video games and watching movies with the kids for the last couple of days.

I had a brief bit of time when the younger two were napping today to make this card, and since I kept it simple I got the video edited and uploaded that while I helped the kids decorate cookies (hence the icing explosion). Multitasking at it's finest! wink

This was a really easy card to whip up - if y'all saw my snowflake cards and whatnot from a couple of months ago you'll remember my obsession with gold/black/white for Christmas colors and I still love it.

Lastly to finish off the inside of the card I stamped a sentiment from the set and then one of the star images from the set with my Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad - another golden lovely that I think everyone should own LOL!

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